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His father was [[Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet]]. [[Thomas Baring]] was his son.<ref>http://www.thepeerage.com/p3458.htm#i34575</ref>
He was related to the Baring banking family. His father was [[Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet]]. [[Thomas Baring]] was his son.<ref>http://www.thepeerage.com/p3458.htm#i34575</ref>


==References==
==References==

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Charles Thomas Baring (1807-1879) was an English bishop, noted as an evangelical.

Life

He became a bishop at a period when Lord Palmerston, influenced by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, was promoting Evangelicals.[1]

He was Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, then Bishop of Durham from 1861 to 1879. He came into conflict with High Church clergy.[2] He suspended Francis Grey, rector of Morpeth, for wearing a stole of which he disapproved.[3]

Family

He was related to the Baring banking family. His father was Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet. Thomas Baring was his son.[4]

References

Notes

  1. ^ David William Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (1989), p. 107.
  2. ^ http://www.chinstitute.org/DAILYF/2003/01/daily-01-22-2003.shtml
  3. ^ http://www.churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_111_3_Scotland.pdf, p. 7.
  4. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p3458.htm#i34575

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Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol
1856–1861
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Durham
1861–1879
Succeeded by